The ten-year trace of the soul of chess

In the taxi, Liang and Guang didn't speak much.

Liang always looked out of the window with his head sideways, and the reversed light cast flickering light and shadows on his handsome face.

Guang looked at Liang in the dark and wanted to ask him, what are you thinking about?Tired?Did you have a good rest?The words came to his lips, but they were all swallowed back.Perhaps at this moment, what Liang needs more is a space for quiet thinking.

Guang touched Liang's hand hanging by his side, and shook it tentatively.Finding that Liang didn't dodge, he poked into his fingers and clasped his fingers together.

Later, it was a phone call with Gu that broke the tranquility in the car.

"If you don't answer the phone, I will block you directly, Jinto!" As soon as he pressed the answer button, his friend's angry voice came from the air.

Guang couldn't help taking the phone away, trying to comfort him: "Well, I had something important to do just now, so I didn't look at the phone."

He Gu: "What's important?"

Light took a bright look.At some point, Liang turned his head and stared straight at him.In the dimly lit car, the ups and downs of bright eyes could not be seen clearly.

Guang inexplicably felt a little guilty, smiled at Chao Liang, and replied to his friend: "Pick up future celebrities."

Logically speaking, this sentence is vague and ambiguous.On the other end of the phone, Hegu still understood immediately, and immediately "hissed" like a toothache: "A sour smell of love!"

Guang Ren and Gu complained, but remained silent.

When the resentment was enough, Hegu finally got back to the topic, saying that when he and Yijiao went to Dogenzaka a few days ago, the boss recognized them and welcomed them to form a team to play in the clubhouse again.

"I and Yijiao's time is OK, so I came here to ask you, do you have time this Saturday?"

Guang raised his head and thought for a while, suddenly his eyes moved, he glanced at him from the corner of his eye, and asked He Gu: "Have you ever played chess with Mr. Ogata?"

Hearing Ogata's name, Ryo's fingers held by Hikari moved slightly.

After receiving an affirmative answer from He Gu, Guang asked again: "What about Yijiao?"

"Should have encountered it before?"

Guang gave a soft "hmm", looked at Liang, and replied to He Gu: "Why don't you just go to your house this Saturday. Call Yi Jiao together." After a pause, he added, "Just call Yi Jiao That's it."

He Gu was at a loss: "What's the situation?"

Guang: "Just this Saturday, we will come to your home for a seminar on Ogata."

"Us?" He Gu heard a clue.

"Yeah. We." Guang looked at Liang, and shook his hand again, "I... and Taya."

Saturday afternoon.

Not long after the doorbell rang, He Gu came out and opened the door.Seeing Liang in casual clothes, he was still uncomfortably stunned, then turned sideways to let them in.

Since it was the "Ogata Symposium", the four of Hegu had prepared their own chess records for playing against Ogata in advance.

The review starts with Hegu.

On the chessboard is the game record of his most recent game against Ogata in the holy war of chess.

Liang quickly scanned the board, and then frowned: "Why did the 67th move of black chess be played in this position?"

He Gu took a closer look: "With this move, I want to break up the connection of the white pieces first, and then consolidate the ground on the lower left."

Liang criticized mercilessly: "Didn't you see the white piece on the lower left? It was because the black piece was late in responding that the white piece captured at least seven eyes later!"

This game of chess had already been severely criticized by Morishita Shigeo during the previous Morishita Seminar, and now Taya Ryo sprinkled salt on the wound, and Kazuya's anger suddenly flared up: "Hey, you What kind of attitude is this? If it wasn't for Shinto, I would..."

In the middle of the speech, when I saw vegetables on the glossy surface, I stopped abruptly.

Although He Gu didn't finish speaking, Liang understood.At the critical moment when he was preparing for the three rounds of celebrity battles, Guang specially invited his friends to hold this seminar, but he...

Realizing that he had made a slip of the tongue, Liang blushed and immediately said, "I'm sorry."

Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Yijiao hurriedly came out to smooth things over: "Taya-kun, you know Mr. Ogata better. If it were you, how would you play?"

"Move 67, I will play here." Ryo pointed to the 6-[-] position, "Mr. Ogata is very thoughtful, and his chess often plays like 'mantis catching cicadas, and oriole behind'."

Listening to Liang's analysis, Guang nodded in agreement: "Indeed, Mr. Ogata is like a fox, digging holes for us non-stop. But..." Guang pointed to the upper left position of the black chess piece, "If it was me, at the 67th move In the end, I will take this step first, and then I will take the position of 6 out of [-]."

While talking, Guang swapped the positions of the two black pieces: "Although it is a delayed response, the 'tip' falls here, not only forcing the white piece to respond, but also giving the black piece a buffer time, isn't it killing two birds with one stone? ?”

After listening to Guang's words, the other three began to think deeply.

Following Guang's train of thought, they had to admit that the method Guang mentioned was indeed the best way to do it.

"So, Liang, although you must 'know yourself and the enemy', sometimes you are too familiar with your opponent, and it is often easier to go astray." Guang summed up pretending to be old-fashioned, and after finishing speaking, he bumped Liang's arm and raised his eyebrows at him.

Liang didn't speak, and only fixed his two gazes on Guang's body.

After being stared at by Liang for a long time, Guang gradually became uncomfortable, and asked angrily: "Why are you staring at me like this? Let's discuss together!"

It wasn't until this moment that he realized that his gaze was too explicit, Liang hurriedly looked away, and gave a soft "hmm".

He Gu and Yi Jiao, who sat opposite each other, had never seen such a docile Taya, they couldn't help but looked at each other, feeling a little uncomfortable all of a sudden.

I thought that Taya was like this only occasionally, but I didn't expect that similar situations would appear again and again in the subsequent seminars.

After being choked by the light the last time, Hegu finally couldn't hold back, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect Taya, you still have this side."

Liang tilted his head in puzzlement, showing a somewhat bewildered expression.

Yijiao quickly explained: "Maybe because Taya-kun in my impression is always serious, so I was a little surprised to see the other side of Taya-kun today." After smiling, he said sincerely, "But this kind of Taya-kun, on the contrary Makes me feel...very real. Really."

I have never paid attention to my appearance in the eyes of others, and suddenly I heard a person I am not very familiar with confiding in myself, and I am dumb for a while, like a child who is at a loss, casting a look of help to the light.

However, a certain Guang, who had been placed with high hopes, seemed to be an expert who stayed out of the matter, and spread his hands: "Yi Jiao is right, idiot!"

"fool--"

The bright words were not finished, but was interrupted by Guang slightly rudely: "I told you before, right? Just because you have a cold face to everyone, you give people the illusion of being inaccessible."

Guang cast a bright glance: "I don't have any self-awareness at all."

Unconsciously, Mou Liang slightly opened his eyes wide, and there was even a hint of innocence in his disturbed expression.

Accustomed to the way of getting along with Guangguang, Hegu has long been familiar with it.But falling into Yijiao's eyes, the doubts that had been entrenched in his heart from just now became more and more intense.

He looked at his friend beside him as if seeking proof, but He Gu just smiled casually at him.

It seems to be affirmative, and it seems to be saying "guess".

From He Gu's response, Yijiao seemed to sense something, but he didn't intend to delve into it further.

He turned to look at the two people sitting opposite him: "It's my honor to see such a Taya-kun. If you don't mind, Shinto's friends are also our friends."

"Friend." Liang murmured softly.

Perhaps because of his personality, Liang never had any close classmates in school since he was a child.Even though I often saw my classmates walking together in groups of three or four, I never felt envious.

To Liang, the word "friend" seems to be just a glass of lukewarm boiled water, without any special meaning.

But at this time, when Yijiao mentioned it, Liang somehow thought of Mr. Ashihara and Miss Shihe. Are they... his friends?

Unable to bear the sudden quietness of the air, He Gu couldn't help but said, "We are indeed not as good as you, if you don't want to, just say it, we won't force it."

Hearing the impatience in the other party's words, Liang raised his head and looked into He Gu's eyes.

He Gu felt his heart trembling when he saw him, and turned his head unnaturally.

Guang smothered a smile from the side.

Yijiao still looked at Ryo with a smile.

In this slightly delicate atmosphere, a blush appeared on Liang's face: "In the future, please give me more advice."

Answering too seriously is like injecting a ton of laughing gas into the air.

In the [-]-fold large room, the three of them headed by Guang were silent for a few seconds, and then burst out laughing loudly.Among them, Guang is particularly horrible, leaning on Liang's shoulder, laughing so hard that he can hardly breathe.

The belated party looked at his lover, and then at the friends who were sitting and laughing together, and after a while, he couldn't help smiling.

It was at this moment that Kazuya suddenly realized that Taya was also their peers, and it was not as far away as imagined.

Perhaps this is how people get along with each other.

Originally simple people and things, once they wear colored glasses, a little bit of prejudice, a little bit of jealousy, and a little bit of gossip, they will completely lose their original judgment.

And some people are like kings guarding the city alone, clumsily confined in a corner, never thinking of taking a step.If you want to get close to him and pull him into the sunshine, you can only take a few more steps.

It may be ten steps, or it may be hundreds of steps.

All title matches are like a drawn-out tug-of-war.As long as half a year at every turn, you need to stay awake and grit your teeth.

From August to November, Celebrities competed in the seven-ban chess game, and Ryo traveled all over Kanagawa, Fukuoka, Aichi, and Hyogo counties, and finally came to Izu City.

The first six rounds seemed to pave the way for the last round, with both sides winning 3 white stars each.

Soon, the time will come to November 11th.The day of the finale of the 9th Celebrity Title Battle.

Since the limited express train from Tokyo to Izu only runs twice a day at 9:12 and [-]:[-], the night before the chess match, Hikari took a ride with Ryo to arrive at the Matsui Hotel, which is the venue of the chess match.In order to avoid suspicion, Guang chose another nearby hotel to stay.

It was just after nine o'clock in the morning, and it might be nearly an hour and a half before the start of the official chess game. When Guang arrived, there was no one in the review room.

Seized the seat facing the broadcast TV and sat down. Looking at the TV screen in front of him, which seemed to be in full swing, as well as the empty seats and chessboards around him, Guang felt an inexplicable tense atmosphere, as if the blood flow in his body was speeding up. slow down.

In the following time, chess players kept pushing the door and entering the examination room.

When a figure stepped into the examination room, the whole room became strangely quiet.Immediately, there was a wave of greetings one after another.

The visitor was wearing a dark feathered hakama suit, and his hair was a dark gray that was a bit white.His eyes are calm, but his whole body reveals the oppressive aura like a samurai who has experienced many battles.

He looked around, nodded with all the chess players, and then walked to the opposite side of the light under the eyes of everyone.

He asked Light, "Can I sit here?

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Going out on Sunday so not sure about the update.

I'll post it when I'm done~